Pivot3’s Acuity Completes Common Criteria

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner Pivot3 on achieving Common Criteria certification on their Acuity v10.4 solution. Pivot3, the company that delivers smarter hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for high performance Enterprise information technology workloads, announced that Acuity has completed the Common Criteria certification under an Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+, which gives governments and end users confidence that Acuity has passed strenuous documentation and testing requirements.

Over the past year, Corsec and Pivot3 have worked together to complete the Common Criteria certification process on the priority-aware HCI solution that is focused on enabling IT organizations to confidently consolidate multiple mixed application workloads, including performance and latency sensitive ones.

About Common Criteria

Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of guidelines (ISO 15408), which define a common framework for evaluating security features and capabilities of Information Technology security products. The standard consists of several predetermined evaluation assurance levels, each one more stringent than the last. Common Criteria allows vendors to have their products tested against a chosen level by an independent third-party testing laboratory. The Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Agreement (CCRA) is a pact, which was designed to allow all evaluations up to an evaluation assurance level (EAL) 2, to be recognized by all participating countries, regardless of where the evaluation was completed. There are currently 30 countries involved in the CCRA, including the United States and Canada, with others that follow unofficially such as the EU.

The U.S. government mandates Common Criteria certification of security products for federal purchases. The National Information Assurance Acquisition Policy, NSTISSP No. 11, requires agencies to purchase only those commercial security products that have met specified third-party assurance requirements and have been tested by an accredited national laboratory.

About Pivot3

Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the datacenter by collapsing storage, compute and network resources onto a powerful, easy to deploy solution that would reduce cost, risk and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their operational objectives and business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined datacenter of the future.

About Corsec Security, Inc.

For two decades Corsechas assisted companies through the IT security certification process for FIPS 140-2,Common Criteria (CC) and the DoD’s APL. We are a privately owned company focused on partnering with organizations worldwide to assist with the process of security certifications and validations. Our certification methodology helps open doors to new markets and increase revenue for clients with products ranging from mobile phones to satellites. Our broad knowledge safeguards against common pitfalls and thwarts delays, translating to a swift and seamless path to certification. Corsec has created the benchmark for providing business leaders with fast, flexible access to industry knowledge on security certifications and validations.

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